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Kanagawa Prefectural Office
On the 18th, four people died and 142 people were infected with the new coronavirus in Kanagawa prefecture. 72 people have unknown routes of infection. Health officials from the prefecture and six cities have announced.
The city of Yokohama has announced the death of three people. Among them, 80-year-old women were found to be infected while admitted to Yokohama Tsurugamine Hospital (Asahi Ward) where a cluster (group of infected persons) occurred, and 90-year-old women are group home users for old people in the city. There are 65 newly infected people. A new positive result was found for one user at an outpatient care center in the city where four users were known to be infected, and it was certified as a cluster.
The City of Kawasaki announced that a woman in her 90s who lived in a clustered group home in Kawasaki Ward died. He turned positive on the 2nd. The death was confirmed on the 17th in a hospital in the city where he was admitted. In addition, 27 men and women from preschool to over 100 years old were infected. A new positive result was found for a child care worker in her 50s at a daycare center in Saiwai Ward, bringing the total number of infected people to seven.
The prefecture has announced 18 infections. Of these, 60-year-old women in Hiratsuka City are employed by a private hospital that does not accept new corona patients in the western part of the prefecture, and the group has grown to 20 people.
The city of Sagamihara has announced the infection of 16 people. Two people were found at Sagamiono Hospital (Minami Ward) and one at Sagami Rehabilitation Hospital (Chuo Ward), and the number of clusters was 30 and 7, respectively.
The city of Yokosuka has announced the infection of six people. In a municipal elementary school where two children and a faculty member were found to be infected, a faculty member and a child were infected, and a total of five people were identified as a group. The school is temporarily closed.
The city of Fujisawa has announced the infection of three people. Of these, the 80-year-old women were residents of clustered nursing homes, and a total of 14 people were infected.
The city of Chigasaki has announced the infection of seven people. Four of them are users of the same facility for the elderly. A total of eight people were infected and identified as a group. The other three are residents of another facility for the elderly and the infection of staff has been previously confirmed.
